Normally your star player’s contract extension would be cause to celebrate, but when the announcement coincides with news your best defender will be Gone `Til November, it’s hard to enjoy the punch and pie. Welcome to Tuesday at Paris Saint-Germain, where news of Zlatan Ibrahimovic’s extension was coupled with word of a six-week absence for Thiago Silva.

Ibrahimovic was already under contract through the end of the 2014-15 season, but if there was ever time for an extension, this was it. The summer before a contract’s last season is usually when you sell, if you’re inclined to do so. If not, you try to re-up before that time to prevent too much leverage sliding to the player’s side of the table.

With today’s deal, Ibrahimovic is now bound to the French champions through 2015-16, with a reported increase in salary from $18.9 million to $20.2 million. Considering that’s likely a net, after-taxes value, Ibrahimovic will be one well-compensated man while playing out his age 34 season.

But the news wasn’t all good around the Parc de Princes, with the diagnosis on Thiago Silva’s Sunday injury returning with bad news. After 16 minutes, the Brazilian international was forced from this weekend’s match againstMonaco, with a subsequent evaluation confirming a left thigh injury will sideline him for six weeks.

Silva made the diagnosis public via his Instagram account (welcome to 2013). PSG head coach Laurent Blanc:

“Thiago has undergone tests that have confirmed a problem with the muscle and the tendons,” he said. “So it is not just muscular and I think he will be out for a certain period. I am not a doctor, I can’t be more precise …

“He is an essential element of the squad, so it is a major blow.”

With a relatively easy Champions League group, their big fall league game behind them, and some depth at center back, PSG should be fine during Silva’s short-term loss. The Marquinhos acquisition from Roma, thought to be a luxury at the time, now looks more prescient. Alex, recovering from a thigh injury of his own, will be back shortly, and Blanc still has Zoumana Camara, who came off the bench on Sunday to play 74 minutes.

The more concerning element of Silva’s injury may be the chronicity. If not that, then the coincidence that a similar injury cost him two months this winter. Perhaps there’s nothing to it, but having turned 29 on Sunday, Silva is approaching the age where injuries could become a bigger part of his profile.